Malaika Arora Khan Quotes

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

Sometimes it's more tiring being at home with your child than it is being at work! But I thrive on variety, so if you can get a good balance in your life, then I think that's the key.

Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You've got to balance things out.